Lilies: Blown out Trumpet?, 0 by llilyfan

llilyfan wrote:
OK! disclaimer: at least i think it is a great story!

I recieved the bulb at the beginning of May this year and being totally unfamiliar with it I decided to place it in a pot since I was aware of it tending to be less hardy. I placed it in an 8 inch tall pot with 4 inches of soil lightly tamped down under the costly little bulb. I carefully watered and thinking to protect from some serious baking I placed that pot in another which was slightly larger and created an insultating airspace around the planted pot.

I diligently watched the pot for about 3 weeks, watering when i watered my other lilies, which were up a couple of inches now and kinda worring about the amount of money that may be decaying in the midst of that barren looking pot. At about 4 weeks I couldn't take it anymore as NOTHING was happening, so....I moved that pot to a shadier location amongst some other lilies on the east side of my house. Everyday I would walk by this pot and look at it and say an explicative I can't repeat here and dutifully water it as needed.

A full 8 weeks later while I was deadheading some of the old lily blooms I decided I have had it with 'watching the pot' and decided a new location out of sight was needed for my piece of mind!

To be continued: